Moog (on topic, too...)

Thanks... I couldn't remember Bob's first name... When I was at WPI in the mid-70s, I got a chance to work with the Arp AX and Odyssey (and a few others for which I forget names) to produce some music which was used in a theatrical production on campus (Beltold Brecht's Gallileo)... I loved getting chances to work on those things... About a decade ago, a few friends of mine and I played with some pdp-11 controlled music generation. We got a bunch of the TI sound generation controllers and one person (who was adept at IC circuit design) designed us a circuit for controlling a set of these units from a DR11C (16-bit parallel output). I still have one prototyped at home... it allowed up to 9 voices (three voices/chip, 3 chips) of sound, and 3 voices of percussion. Someone else got ahold of the Stanford music software for the pdp-10 and wrote a pdp-11 version of it... we had it playing a bunch of the old stanford songs, and I entered a few more (like Scott Joplin's "Crush Collision Rag"). Since the hardware connected to the AC lights of the -10 was called the MK10, we called our board the MK11... Somewhere I have the schematic for it... Later on, another friend (hi, Allison) designed a DLV11-J to MIDI interface... I have a couple of Casio CT101 synthesizers and a sequencer... Megan Gentry Former RT-11 Developer +--------------------------------+-------------------------------------+ | Megan Gentry, EMT/B, PP-ASEL | Internet (work): gentry zk3.dec.com | | Unix Support Engineering Group | (home): mbg world.std.com | | Compaq Computer Corporation | addresses need '@' in place of ' ' | | 110 Spitbrook Rd. ZK03-2/T43 | URL: http://world.std.com/~mbg/ | | Nashua, NH 03062 | "pdp-11 programmer - some assembler | | (603) 884 1055 | required." - mbg | +--------------------------------+-------------------------------------+